Matt Smith is already leaving Dr. Who? (Page 1 of 2)

I stoped reading after "Apparently".

I didn't like him at the start, but now I just love him...

Sad if it's true..

he has grown on me

Wow, I know everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but ... wow. Really? Even if you didn't think season 5 was all that great, you cannot be serious when saying it was worse?!? Farting aliens, Love and Monsters, Daleks in Manhattan, ... Those were some seriously bad elements or episodes and nothing in season 5 was ever that bad. If nothing else the worst episodes of season 5 were about where the mediocre ones from past seasons were. You might be fooled by your pink glasses of nostalgia ...

"We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We're evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go."
-- Colonel Tigh

Surprised? Read more here:
http://blastr.com/2010/09/karen-gillan-and-matt-smi.php

While he isn't my favourite Doctor by a long shot, he did grow on me. I have to say the writing as a whole for the last series was sub-par and didn't help him at all.

They haven't mentioned the 12 regenerations thing in the new show at all... I think that they hope no one will remember

I love it! I mean, we already know that they would have to get around this problem in some way... why not just ignore it? If they would make a serious deal about it, and create some super duper situation which unlimits the doctors regenerations, we would still find it ridiculous and a "terrible excuse".
I think that this is the best way they could have done it

Yes, we would. My problem doesn't really lie with how they did it, more with what that implies. You see, if they actually put some thought into it, no matter how far-fetched and cliche it would have been, it would be an explanation. Not just that, they probably would have only extended his life by, and this is key, a specific amount. Say, just resetting the counter and giving the Doctor another 13 regenerations would have been fine. Yes, it would again just postpone the problem, but 11 regenerations lasted them 40 years so I wouldn't have a problem with that.

The real issue here is very well summarized in this article. If you're too lazy to read that short and well-written article, it makes a point that the Doctor is now basically immortal. Yes, he can "die," but it will take a very special set of circumstances for him not to be able to regenerate (about as far-fetched as whatever reason the writers would find to extend the regeneration limit, had they actually bothered). A character that is immortal has no fear of repercussions and all his heroism ceases to be heroic. Like my mum used to say, a hero isn't somebody who has no fear, it is whoever is afraid yet goes on in spite of the fear. They basically destroyed all of the Doctor's urgency and purpose. (Yes, I am one of the people who believe that death gives our lives purpose - not the act of dying itself, but the fear of dying and the limit on our time here is what forces us to do something meaningful with our lives.)

"We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We're evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go."
-- Colonel Tigh

Yet again Marco shows that he is the person in the world it is hardest to agree with. Pure nonsense. Rather comedic actually. That he keeps going that is

I think that they were just having fun on the set of Doctor Who...

if theres a pic its not a fake!